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CIED's GetVirtual Program
Internships for Budding Entrepreneurs and Freelancers

The Center for Innovation for Entrepreneurial Development (CIED) program, GetVirtual, connects UCSC students with local Santa Cruz businesses to help them with their online presence. Many Santa Cruz businesses need help navigating the online e-commerce world. Students gain valuable experience in project management. Small businesses increase their digital footprint for free. It's a win-win. Since 2020, we have launched over 220 successful projects with the help of hundreds of students.


The GetVirtual program trains students to project manage the development of websites and social media campaigns. After successful completion of the training, students are paid to provide these services through a partnership with the Santa Cruz Small Business Development Center. Since last year, we have had over 30 interns go through the program.


Your donation to the Spring Give will help expand this program so that more students can get real-world, one-to-one client experience while giving back to our community.


GetVirtual partners with SCEE (Student Creativity Empowerment and Entrepreneurship); together they create events such as Ideathon and the annual SlugTank and speaker events with luminaries such as Steve Blank, Toby Corey (CEO of CruzFoam), Rick Vargas (Former Apple Creative Director) and Bertille Toledano (Presidente BETC). Thank you for making your gift to GetVirtual today!


For more information go to: 

https://www.getvirtual.org/ and https://www.coursera.org/learn/getvirtual


Leaderboard
Kickoff Challenge
The group with the most unique donors on April 3rd between 4 and 6 PM will win $1,000. Second place will receive $500.
Rank Prize Department Donors
1 $1,000 Men's Club Lacrosse 26
2 $500 Acquire A Cappella 16
3 WiSE (Women in Science and Engineering) 14
4 Women's Lacrosse Team 8
5 Sol Ultimate Frisbee 6
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Closeout Challenge
The project with the most unique donors will win $1,000. Second place will receive $500.
Rank Prize Department Donors
1 $1,000 iGEM 47
2 $500 alpha Kappa Delta Phi 26
3 Graduate Student Peer Mentorship Program 12
4 Acquire A Cappella 9
5 Men's Club Lacrosse 8
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Hundred Dollar Dash
The project team with the most donations $100 or greater will receive an additional $1,000. Second place will receive $500.
Rank Prize Department Donors
1 $1,000 Lick Observatory 33
2 $500 Gary Griggs Fund: Earth Sciences Student Research 19
3 KZSC 88.1FM 19
4 iGEM 15
5 Men's Club Lacrosse 12
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The Spring Give Challenge
The project with the most unique donors throughout The Spring Give will win $3,000. Second place will receive $2,000 and third place will win $1,000.
Rank Prize Department Donors
1 $3,000 iGEM 124
2 $2,000 alpha Kappa Delta Phi 81
3 $1,000 Men's Club Lacrosse 75
4 Lick Observatory 67
5 Acquire A Cappella 44
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Internships and Hands-On Learning Challenge
The group with the most donors will receive $1,500, with second place receiving $1,000.
Rank Prize Department Donors
1 $1,500 iGEM 124
2 $1,000 KZSC 88.1FM 36
3 Santa Cruz Artificial Intelligence Club (SCAI) 23
4 Pinniped Lab at Long Marine Laboratory 17
5 Fish Rap Live! 15
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Surprise Challenge
Surprise! The project with the most gifts between 4 and 8 p.m. on April 6th will receive $1,500. Second place will receive $1,000 and third will get $500.
Rank Prize Department Gifts
1 $1,500 Santa Cruz Artificial Intelligence Club (SCAI) 16
2 $1,000 Men's Club Lacrosse 13
3 $500 Acquire A Cappella 10
4 Lick Observatory 7
5 KZSC 88.1FM 6
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Participating Groups
ACE Program Acquire A Cappella alpha Kappa Delta Phi Archaeological Research Center Cantu Queer Resource Center Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions CIED's GetVirtual Program CIDER - Student Drone Training El Centro Student Professional Development Fund Equestrian Club Fish Rap Live! Game Design and Art Collaboration (GDA) Advancing Anti-racist Practices in Genomics Graduate Student Peer Mentorship Program HistCon Graduate Students' Research Travel Fund Hummingbird Computational Cluster iGEM KZSC 88.1FM Lick Observatory Men's Club Lacrosse Men's Volleyball On the Spot Pinniped Lab at Long Marine Laboratory Slug Support Santa Cruz Artificial Intelligence Club (SCAI) Slug Bike Life Slug Life Productions Board SlugSat Sol Ultimate Frisbee Tech4Good Student Programs Gary Griggs Fund: Earth Sciences Student Research UCSC Ice Hockey Club UCSC National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) UCSC RUGBY WiSE (Women in Science and Engineering) Women's Lacrosse Team Women’s Club Soccer
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